• “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

”
Healing – Winston Churchill

Through • "Buildings have a direct effect on our emotions.

Architecture They can be depressing or uplifting, soothing or
surprising, welcoming or forgiving.” -Eberhard
Therapeutic/
Healing THE 6 PILLARS OF BIOCLIMATIC
DESIGN
HOLISTIC
SUSTAINABILITY
HARMONIZING
SPACES
HEALING
Architecture ARCHITECTURE
The concept of designing Architectural BUILDING RADIATION SACRED
spaces by considering natural factors HEALTH GEOMETRY

like sound, light, color, smell, and

pleasant views certainly connects to Psychology of Architecture and its effects on humans
human senses and proves to show more
ability in the physical and psychological
healing of patients.
Healing spaces not only change the
mental state of a person but make her
aware of all the elements of our
nature. Thus, architecturally defining
these spaces is not only important but
necessary.
 HEALING CENTRE FOR THE MIND BODY AND SOUL
Sensory Healing Through Architecture
The need to
design/provide
The aim is to provide a place where people can relax and
an Architecturally reconnect with self, experience the impact of senses through
defined healing built space and facilities for mind-body therapies if needed.
space for Mental
HealthCare as to
help in It aims to incorporate a combination of landscape and
recovering our
illness by materials in coordination with light and wind. This concept
sensorial of sensory incorporation is to open the space; to touch, hear
approaches. and smell with a variety of materials.

The design will include private counselling spaces,

meditation spaces, healing garden, therapeutic spa
facility, hospitality spaces so visitors can choose what
experiences they need.
 Thrust Area of Design
The work aims to discover how architecture and aesthetics can create an environment conducive to the
healing process. The work nowhere thrusts that the architecture, when used independently, has the
ability to heal; but the architectural manipulation of space can act as a catalyst in creating a healing
environment that may affect the physical and psychological behavior of the patient.
The objective of this study is to analyze the following:
a) How spaces can be designed in line with the healing process of patients.
b) To discover various facets of architecture viz-a-viz human psyche.
c) To study the concept of sensory architecture to understand the relation of man and his environment.
d) To study how natural elements can be a catalyst in the healing environment.
Areas to be explored: Psychological Environmenta Architectural Social Factors
Factors l Factors Factors
Factors such as-
• Concept of Healing; Mental Understandin Understandin Understanding Lack of
healthcare g the concept g and architectural awareness
of Healing implying requirements of about mental
• Architectural Psychology- The through Holistic a Mental health
influence of Architecture on our sensory Sustainability HealthCare/ in society
psyche approach in design Healing Center
• Fenestration; The power of openings
Factors Sensory Studying existing Social factors
• Color theory affecting and approaches Therapeutic/ affecting mental
enhancing Holistic health
• Material influence on overall sense healing architectural
of environment process spaces
• Sensorial approach in design Impact of built Incorporating Studying Understanding
considering temperature, lighting, environment green spaces fenestration, the approach of
air flow, water body, sound on the mood and water color theory, people towards
quality, green spaces of a person bodies optimum healing spaces
utilization of
• And more. materials
 Santa Fe de Bogotá Foundation
Architects: Equipo de Mazzanti Architects
Location: Bogota, Colombia| Year: 2016
Area: 32000 m2|Type: Medical Center

• Façade - This façade allows the use of the

brick wall as a membrane that helps to
have a semi-private relation with the
exterior.
• On the back of the brick skin, there is a
glazed skin to prevent pollution,
contamination, noise and whether
isolation for a really temperature and
sound control.
• They want to rescue the intention of the
patio and natural lighting in each of the
spaces, an element of vital meaning in the
healing process.
• Well-being: management of the best
interior environmental quality:
contamination control, protection and
control, thermic control, visual and smell
comfort, perception comfort, light comfort.
Sensory Healing
Centre by Jee
Yeon Choi
• There are three major program
areas in the center of the
building: Library, Sensory
Garden, and Organic Café. By
having the Sensory Garden
between the Library and the
Organic Café, the place works as
a bridge to manifest the
transition of two different
atmospheres.
• This non-traditional healing
center gives visitors a sense of
peace by connecting them to
nature with a variety of sensory
experiences by Strategies to
incorporate natural materials
and lighting, green spaces and
human interactions.
Muktangan Rehabilitation Centre
Location: Pune, Maharashtra
Built Area: 1660 sqm
The design unifying transparency becomes expressive
of this freedom and increases the physical and visual
interaction, thereby reducing the isolated alienated
feeling. Even the main entrance is transparent. The
transparency, the cutouts, the terraced balconies and
the seating, encourage the patients to open up. The
small-enclosed landscaped amphitheater breathes
light and joy in the building.
Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre and Research
Institute
Location: Thakurpukur, West Bengal
Plot Area:13 acres
SGCCRI is a nonprofit organization which boasts of
a sprawling 13 acres campus with trees, gardens and
water bodies that create an ambience of being cared for in
the lap of nature. The philosophy behind such
extensive natural landscaping is to blend nature, art
and architecture, with modern machinery, extensive
medical know-how and care to soothe the agony of the
thousands of patients, who come every year to the
institute.
 Sensory Healing Centre by Jee Yeon Choi

https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architecture/cultural/sensory-healing-center-by-jee-yeon-choi/

Thesis: RAW Holistic Healing Centre

https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/thesis-project-raw-holistic-healing-center

Dissertation: Healing Through Architecture by Shivani Tandon

RELEVANT CASESTUDIES https://issuu.com/shivanitandon/docs/ilovepdf_merged

AND RESEARCH PAPERS
southwest centre for forensic mental health care

https://www.parkin.ca/blog/designing-for-mental-health-facilities/

Yarram and District Health Services, Integrated Healthcare Centre / McBride Charles Ryan

https://www.archdaily.com/965938/yarram-and-district-health-services-integrated-healthcare-centre-mcbride-
charles-ryan?ad_source=myarchdaily&ad_medium=bookmark-show&ad_content=current-user

Muktangan Pune Case Study https://issuu.com/nikhilsaxena/docs/portfolio--nikhil_kumar_saxena